Minecraft 1.6.1 Official Download

Minecraft 1.6.1 now live!

Changelogs:

• Added handling of invitations


• Added resetting realm with one of provided realm templates


• Added viewing backups for a realm and the ability to restore any of them


• Added setting the owner of a realm as game master operator


• Added confirmation screens for various actions (such as deleting a realm)


• Ability to leave someone else’s realm that previously accepted invitation for.


• Fixed game mode and game difficulty issue


• Minor GUI fixes for better usability

You can download the new launcher for the following systems:

Windows: Server 1 Download – Server 2 Download

MAC/OSX: Server 1 Download – Server 2 Download

Linux: Server 1 Download – Server 2 Download

To install the launcher, simply download and run the program.

Manual installation

Minecraft for Windows

Download Minecraft.exe. Place it anywhere you want, then run it.

Minecraft for Mac OS X

Download Minecraft.zip. Unpack and place Minecraft in your /Applications folder.

Minecraft for Linux / Other

Download minecraft.jar. The jar is executable and might work as-is. If you run into memory issues, try launching it with java -Xmx1024M -Xms512M -cp minecraft.jar net.minecraft.LauncherFrame, also please use Sun’s JVM.

Multiplayer Server

If you’re running on Windows and just want to set up a server easily, download Minecraft_Server.exe and run it.

If you want to run the server on any other OS or without GUI it’s a bit more involved. First make sure you can use java from the command line. On Linux and Mac OS X this should already be set up but on Windows you might have to tinker with the PATH environment variable. Download and run minecraft_server.jar with java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui.